newbie
[noo-bee, nyoo‐]
- a newcomer or novice, especially an inexperienced user of the Internet or of computers in general.
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Origin of newbie
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Michael Steinbrick, a personal trainer with New York Sports Clubs, says he can always spot a newbie.
When he first landed, as a newbie, he had lots of sex and went out a lot.
And he knows there'll be more than a few people wondering how a 27-year-old newbie managed to snag such a coveted part.
Kristi Noem The South Dakota newbie was picked by House Republicans to serve as the freshman liaison to the GOP leadership.
He's poor, mentally disabled, and his newbie lawyer botched his sentencing.
newbie
- slang a newcomer, esp in computing or on the internet
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Word Origin
C20: origin unknown; possibly from new boy
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Word Origin and History for newbie
n.
"newcomer, new person to an existing situation," by 1969, from new with diminutive or derogatory suffix. Perhaps originally U.S. military slang. Cf. noob. Middle English had newing "a new thing" (early 15c.); new was used as a noun meaning "naval cadet during first training on a ship" (1909); and newie "new thing" is recorded from 1947.
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